"They say you make your best decision in the first three seconds. The rest of the time you spend talking yourself out of it."

No, I don't mean stick all your chips in on a flush draw because you REALLY think that spade is going to hit the river.

Today in the 100k deepstack tournament I was having a pretty good game, not having to show down many hands and behind the luck of winning one big coin flip early on, I was building my stack nicely.

I got involved in a hand when the blinds were 300/600, where a number of players limped into the pot. I called the blinds with a 7c 2c in position and we went into the flop 6 handed.

I hit the miracle flop I was looking for when the flop came down 9c Jc Qc and I flopped the flush.

Unfortunately to my surprise, the small blind lead the betting with a bet of 4400 into the 3600 pot. This was a problem for a number of reasons:

1) The small blind over bet the pot
2) The small blind lead the betting with 5 players still to act behind him
3) The small blind had played very tight

The big blind then called the overbet and the rest of the players folded to me.

With the big blind's call, I decided the big blind was likely on the Ac for the nut flush draw, and possibly some other card for a gutshot as well. So I wasn't worried about the big blind.

I decided the small blind was trying to protect a flopped made hand, and since he didn't raise preflop, 99 JJ and QQ were out of the question. So the small blind either has KT/T8 for the straight or he too flopped the flush.

This was my read, however this wasn't the information I processed when making my decision.

I decided that since the odds of flopping the flush are slim, and even smaller that two people flopped it, and smaller still if the big blind has the ace of clubs, then there is no way my flush was behind and I would shove hoping one would call on a draw.

I shoved my 24 000 stack, and the small bind quickly shoved his stack over top.

Small blind turned over a 6c 8c and I was drawing dead to a split pot with my flopped flush.

The moral of the story today is, if you have a gut feeling about a situation, try to understand why you feel this way, before trying to talk yourself out of it. There's a good possibility that your first instincts were right.